Posted on 11/08/2023 8:58:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Or from 2018. Or from 2022. Or from any election where the feckless RNC is tasked with holding the line against a relentless assault on Americans’ rights and freedoms.
Based on these off-year election results, things are going to get a whole lot worse for Republican voters to mobilize to make necessary changes in their government.
First, let’s get to the gubernatorial elections.
Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear was re-elected after beating Trump-endorsed candidate Daniel Cameron, an evangelical running amidst an unpopular near-total state ban on abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Beshear’s win means the state government will stay split until at least 2024, when the next state parliamentary elections take place. The Democrats hold the governorship and the Republicans hold both house of the state legislature.
Biden lost Kentucky by more than 25 points three years ago. It is inexplicable how the Republican Party is afraid to fight for voters, even in states where they are receptive.
On the flip side for Republicans, Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves was re-elected after beating Brandon Presley. With Reeves’ win, the state will still have a power trifecta: the governor, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
Recently, Republican Jeff Landry was elected as Louisiana’s governor on October 14.
The Trump-RNC Feud: A Divided GOP and the Future of the Party To quote Meatloaf: Two out of three ain’t bad.
But abortion referenda shows that the issue remains a lightning rod for left-leaning and pro-choice voters.
ABC News crowed about the election results, and it’s illustrative of what voters are likely to constantly hear about the issue ahead of 2024.
“Striking liberal turnout, a comparative dearth of voters who backed Donald Trump in 2020 and broad support for legal abortion helped make Ohio, on Tuesday, the latest state projected to support abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, according to exit polling,” ABC News trumpeted.
Then the news outlet provided data to back up its claims.
“Liberals [sic] accounted for 34% of voters in Ohio exit poll results, up sharply from 20% in the 2022 midterms and 21% in the 2020 presidential election. That’s a record-high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984. They backed both the abortion and marijuana referenda by vast margins, 94-6% for abortion and 85-15% for marijuana.”
Here’s the breakdown on Trump voter turnout.
“In line with greater turnout by liberals, Trump 2020 voters were in comparatively short supply: Voters said in exit polling that they backed Joe Biden over Trump in 2020, 45-43%. But Trump won Ohio in that election, 53-45%.”
No Trump, no Trump voters. Not good. But how is the Republican Party trying to reach them?
The underlying problem is that nobody trusts the Republicans to abide by their word. Where are the J6 tapes? Where are the impeachments for Joe Biden, Merrick Garland or even Alejandro Mayorkas? When will the weaponized FBI be defunded?
The Democrats think this is a political war. The Republicans think this is a political game.
Trump voters see rising threats to the nation in terms of the border crisis, the non-stop war machine, and the monumental levels of debt. Establishment Republicans yawn and continue on with business-as-usual, which entails counting their filthy lucre in Loudoun and Fairfax counties.
But that’s not all for 2023. Furthermore, a Democrat won an open seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after campaigning on a pledge to uphold abortion rights. Democrat Daniel McCaffery defeated Republican Carolyn Carluccio in Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court race, increasing the Democrats’ majority on the court ahead of the 2024 election.
This, once again, bodes ill for the Keystone State’s voters, since the swing state has been the site of numerous recent election debacles. In 2022, a flood of mail-in ballots caused serious delays to the state’s counting of votes. It was an encore performance for its ridiculous election practices in 2021, and of course, in 2020 as well.
This year was no different. Multiple voting machines in Northampton County on Tuesday were reported to be shut down due to errors, including “votes getting flipped.” The county switched to paper ballots (perhaps something it should have done all along).
At a news conference on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the company that made the voting machines, claimed that an employee made a mistake. They said they “regret the situation” and are committed to “fair, accurate results.”
The election issue surfaced in the early hours of Tuesday and pertained to the contest for the Pennsylvania Superior Court between Judge Jack Panella and Judge Victor Stabile.
In judicial retention contests, opponents are not included on the ballot. The ‘yes’ or ‘no’ option is provided for the voter to determine whether they want the judge to remain in their position. ES&S says the issue will be fixed in the backend. Reassuring.
And in other blow to the Republicans’ election hopes, Democrats took full control of the Virginia statehouse, delivering a defeat to Gov. Glenn Youngkin that may quell any expectations that he will make a late entry into the GOP presidential primary.
The underwhelming off-year election results under a historically bad Democratic presidency have many voters concerned about the upcoming 2024 elections.
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows that a whopping 76 percent of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction.
The survey revealed that a striking 95% of Republicans are negative and believe the country is going in the wrong way. This was followed by 76% of independents and 54% of Democrats.
Yet the RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel continuously fails to harness all of this widespread dissatisfaction about the nation’s state of affairs and turn it into meaningful election results. This is the fourth straight election cycle where the Trump-backed McDaniel has blown it.
The Washington Examiner published a litany against her in the aftermath of the 2022 midterms, where a “red wave” failed to even make a splash.
Ronna McDaniel is about to win another term as the head of the Republican National Committee. It is an incredible feat, given her track record of failure…
That is fantastic news for Democrats, who watched McDaniel take control of the RNC in 2017. Since then, Republicans have lost the House in 2018 and the White House in 2020. With President Joe Biden wildly unpopular, Republicans should have dominated the midterm elections in November. Instead, the party went out with a whimper, just barely taking the House and losing one seat in the Senate. McDaniel has overseen three election cycles now, and the best she can say is that one of them (2020) was just a failure, rather than a miserable failure.
If the RNC under McDaniel is no good at helping Republicans win elections, what exactly has McDaniel been good at? What does she bring to the table? The GOP’s candidates have become worse over the last three cycles, not better. The party lost the House in a “blue wave” in 2018, lost the presidency to the political dinosaur Joe Biden in 2020, and then failed to win sweeping control of Congress in a 2022 cycle that should have been a “red wave.”
No wonder conservative commentators are calling for her to give it up and let somebody more serious take the helm.
Many believe these disappointing election results are due to the populist presidential candidate Donald Trump being off the ballot. But that argument reveals a major issue: Keep Trump off the ballot and the MAGA movement doesn’t show up for elections.
It’s enough to give Trump’s political enemies all of the wrong ideas ahead of 2024.
How about we table the abortion debate until AFTER WE WIN?
I want to win so we can somehow keep ourselves out of WW3. Id like to afford to put gas in my truck. Id like to be able to comfortably shop at the grocery store. How about stopping the indoctrination at our schools?
And yet so much of the right wants to make abortion front and center! its maddening how stupid our side is. As soon as a democrat hears abortion they are motivated to vote. How about we do as much as we can to damper their will to vote? Naw, LET MOTIVATE THEM. Damn, our side is so DAMN STUPID.
“The common denominator is Ronna McDaniel.”
To some degree, you are correct.
I’m looking solely at yesterday’s results. Kentucky was always gonna be tough. You had a popular Dem Governor with lots of money and name ID. Hell, his dad was governor of the state too. Cameron should have waited four more years and then ran for Governor. He’d have likely easily won.
Virginia is lost. We thought there was a chance after the elections of two years ago. But govt workers, suburban soccer moms and leftist single women have ruined it. Abortion played a role there unfortunately.
We (the GOP) got what we wanted when Rowe v Wade was over-turned. However, there’s the old adage of wanting something too bad. It has now turned around to bite us on the butt. Even red states like Ohio and Kansas won’t agree to a ban on abortion. Few states will. All we succeeded in doing was to give the Democrats a baseball to hit us over the head with - repeatedly.
We do face other hurtles such as a well-funded Democrat party with all of its appendages such as labor, abortion rights groups, the MSM etc. They love to demagogue any issue they can and worse yet, we don’t fight back.
I’m not defending Mcdaniel. She needs to resign. But she alone is not the problem.
Does anyone really believe that after the disaster of the last two years that people voted en masse for democrats? More of the same? I don’t believe it.
“GOP has to run candidates that guarantee first trimester abortions or disappear.”
The GOP blew it because they allowed the DNC, and the media, to direct their platform. No one issue is going to be changed overnight. You can’t expect to go from high speed to stop right away. Slow down is the only workable way. But by the GOP literally hanging their success on this one topic and not thinking about how to approach it, they fell like Custer.
I’m not seeing mortgage rates out of control, a huge deficit trade problem, crime up due to cuts in law enforcement funding, lack of control at the southern border, supply line problems...all I see on the docket is abortion. And the GOP doesn’t have a chance as the world doesn’t live on black/white or even good/evil. It takes time and they didn’t allow that. There are no easy solutions when there are many and limiting to one is foolish.
Hope they spread themselves out a little with more of the topics that are just as, or maybe more, important than just abortion. And the libs have failed at all of them. But no on will ever know, or remember, they did because abortion is the first and last line of problems the US has...according to them
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So you are willing to burn the world down, LITERALLY, so you can say you stuck to your guns?
Cause thats what you are doing. How can so many be so damn hardheaded? Everytime abortion is made the main issue, WE LOSE! And with each loss this country sinks deeper into the morass. But at least i kept my abortion druthers!!!!
As far as I’m concerned, nothing does more to diminish my enthusiasm for the Republican Party than one more statement by a corrupt, feckless tool like Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham or Nikki Haley calling for an unlimited stream of taxpayer funds for that homosexual midget running Ukraine into the ground.
“Then whats the point of voting?”
Because it makes you feel like you’re taking action.
I still vote. I don’t get upset at the outcome anymore though.
I could retire but I still work part-time to fend off boredom.
Being in the last 1/3 of my life, I don’t get worked up about elections very much. The younger generations are taking over. They have to decide on their own values and fight their own battles.
Boomers and Gen-X had their time. We were the Reagan Revolution. We found our values and fought our battles.
Now our time is either passing or already passed.
In swing state that have GOP legislatures they need to put referendums on the ballot that have overwhelming support. For example voter ID, drug tests for welfare recipients, and similar measures
Not only do right thinking conservatives have to fight the left and democrats, we have to fight our hard headed brethren who insist on bringing up the one subject that motivates democrats to vote. JHC, on days like this it is hard not to agree with the people who say all is already lost.
Boomers and Gen-X had their time. We were the Reagan Revolution. We found our values and fought our battles.
Now our time is either passing or already passed.
Im only 50. I have some time left and I’m not willing to just toss my hands up and just live with what is being presented to us today. I have the money to leave, but where would that place be? There really isn’t anywhere to go if we aren’t willing to seriously fight for this country.
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“Im only 50. I have some time left and I’m not willing to just toss my hands up and just live with what is being presented to us today. I have the money to leave, but where would that place be? There really isn’t anywhere to go if we aren’t willing to seriously fight for this country.”
Then keep up the fight.
I stopped because I think it’s largely a lost cause and the outcomes were making me angry. I don’t like being angry. That’s when I came to the conclusion that my time had largely passed. Raging against that seemed pointless. I have the means to live a good life, so that’s what I’m doing.
Your mileage may vary.
>>They will never concede on the issue of abortion. Even if it costs elections.
So in typical stupid republican ways, they would rather have abortion legal up to 9 months in every state (By allowing democrats to continue to win and then get laws passed), rather than compromise and get *some* limits that most voters would agree to and which would save some of the unborn...i.e. if I can’t save 100% of the unborn, I don’t want to save any of the unborn.
Great strategy.
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That started in 1948.
They never fail to fail.
You speak of stupid republican ways and compromise.
That’s been the modus operandi for decades. Republicans have always given lip service to this abortion issue and compromised with the Democrats.
Until Trump. Until Trump appointed 3 Supreme Court Justices that turned Roe v. Wade back to the states. Which pissed off the Stupid Party which in turn has doubled down on the “compromise” rhetoric.
You want to compromise with the likes of Graham, McConnel, and other GOP elites? On their pro-abortion, pro Ukraine, pro open borders, etc. policies?
Not me. Abortion is the Number 1 key issue that defines the rest of the Party. If you get this wrong, then yeah. You will not be correct on Ukraine, the border, the economy, and everything else.
Biden lost Kentucky by more than 25 points three years ago. It is inexplicable how
the Republican Party is afraid to fight for voters, even in states where they are receptive.
Weird, isn’t it?
Youngkin tried to thread that needle in VA. It failed miserably. Republican candidates need to make abortion a “third rail” issue along with Social Security and Medicare.
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